The Debt Ceiling is nothing but an opportunity for the Democrats to trot out the usual Victims and have their DNC Water Carrying Media buddies attack any Republican who utters the words Fiscal Responsibility.
Get rid of it and push for a Constitutional Amendment requiring a Balanced Budget with the only exception to running a Deficit being involved in a Declared War.
Isn’t it funny how our side supposedly controls both Houses of Congress and the White House and we are still playing defense? It just tells you who really controls the Message.
You know, funny like a Clown, the Clown in the Movie “IT”.
The problem with a Constitutional Amendment for a Balanced Budget is, without it coupled with a spending cap. Congress will keep spending until tax rates are confiscatory. (If the states are a laboratory on this, they are already are confiscatory in some states!). The right way to do it is do a Balanced Budget Amendment with spending capped at 20% or less GNP, then to spend more the economy must grow more.
The key is entitlements get control of them. Soon they will be the entire federal budget. I know its popular to bash Ryan here, but he is the only one who has made a proposal to reel in entitlements. He is a weasel about other things but he is right here. (His proposal needs a lot of work but at least he made it!) To get it done everyone’s ox has to get gored, including, veterans, seniors, women & children, etc. Everyone loves entitlements because everyone gets their turn at the federal trough! That’s why they are so hard to control. It also shows that there is a little entitled socialist in us all ! Watch all the FR’ers jump to tell me I am wrong and defend entitlements! (And if you think social security is not an entitlement, look up Ida Mae Fuller! See how much she put into SS versus how much she took out. There have been 10s of thousands (more!) Ida Mae Fullers! Also remember what you put in while you were working went to those then retired. You get your SS from the next future worker demographic! It was purposely set up to leave “IOUs” imposed on the next generation of workers! Yes politicians & the FedGov has lied to you about this for 80+ years! )
Discretionary spending like defense or the FedGov operating expenses are not much of a problem. Not that we want to be wasteful, watch for that and take care of it. Claiming it all can be solved by cutting government waste or firing feds is a deflection - a red herring. It puts a bad aid on a wound that isn’t there!